Lucky

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Lucky is a minor character from the Kishin Douji Zenki series.

He is a dog with fluffy, white fur and black eyes. He is very old and has been with the the Enno family since Chiaki's childhood. Lucky started out as a stray dog, that randomly came to the Enno Shrine and decided to call it his new home. Afterwards, he became grandmother Saki's pet and later was given to Chiaki.

As Lucky only appears in a single chapter, his backstory never properly explained, leaving many plotholes concerning his character. Thus, it is never revealed when Saki gave him to Chiaki.

Lucky's Introduction
Lucky first appears in the beginning of Volume 9's chapter 3, when he leaps across the table Chiaki, Akira and Saki are eating at, startling them and throwing everything off the table in the process.

Lucky has stolen Chibi Zenki's food (the classic meat on a bone) and is now escaping with it. He is soon followed by a furious Chibi Zenki, at which point this turns into a game of chase.

Zenki and Lucky circle around Chiaki for awhile until Chiaki gets annoyed and hits Zenki in the head, ending the chase and in a rather questionable act punishing the one who has been robbed instead of the thief.

When Zenki yells and curses at Lucky, who is munching away on his prize, Akira makes a funny comment on the whole situation in an attempt to lighting things up, but involuntarily annoys Zenki even further. Zenki now challenges Akira, asking him if he wants to fight, which Akira answers by telling Zenki that he didn't mean it that way.

Chiaki just sighs. She is tired and just thinks to herself that everything is going as usual.

Shortly afterwards, Lucky shows Zenki that he didn't mean it that way, either. He jumps onto Zenki starts woofing in an affectionate manner. Being unaware of his own strength, he makes the Chibi fall over and now tries to lick his face. But Zenki doesn't like this and throws him off, causing Lucky to run and hide behind Chiaki.

When Zenki starts ranting, Chiaki tells him that the Bracelet of Protection is still broken and shows a broken Ying/Yang symbol to him. Zenki then argues about if he's ever going to be able to become a proper Kishin again. Chiaki then teases little Chibi Zenki, just as usual.

Going for a walk
Lucky can be seen again when he's taken for a walk by Chibi Zenki and Chiaki after Kuribayashi had informed Chiaki about some strange happenings. Kuribayashi has seen animals being shot down out of seeminly nowhere.

Chiaki obviously decides to go and investigate it.

At first, everything seems rather peaceful, but then Zenki, Chiaki and Lucky meet a boy playing with his dog. An arrow is fired, hits the pup and kills it.

The boy is utterly horrified and the three heroes immediately run over to him. When the unseen archer tries to shoot Chibi Zenki, Lucky notices something fishy and leaps into action.

He is hit by an arrow, which causes the poor old dog to fall over. Chiaki gets worried and Chibi Zenki is on guard. He swiftly notices the foe and runs straight at the enemy, but his recklessness causes Zenki to get shot in the left shoulder.

Regardless, the little Kishin tries to face his foe head on again. When the man tries to shoot the boy and Chiaki, Chiaki reacts quickly and gets the boy out of harms way, but gets cut by a bypassing arrow.

Zenki takes his chance, but an arrow hits him in his left tight. He falls over and can't walk anymore. Things look really bad for Zenki, Chiaki and the boy.

Oddly, Lucky is nowhere to be seen...

Lucky's sacrifice
The man turns into a huge, armored bug and tries to impale Chiaki, which luckily fails, but when she tries to distract him by using her Khan fire-spell. This fails as well.

When the bug beastman goes for the kill and tries to shot Zenki in the head, Lucky leaps into action and takes the hit for him. But this is too much for the poor old dog, which has now three large arrows stuck in his body. (one in his left shoulder and the other two in his left flank)

Chiaki is shocked and Chibi Zenki's face just turns blank as he can't grasp what just happened. He reaches out for the dog, but then Lucky quickly gets back up to gently lick the wound at Zenki's shoulder.

Lucky's affectionate behaviour confuses him at first, but then the dog woofs at him and gets continuously weaker. Lucky cares about Zenki and doesn't want him to get hurt, but tears appear in the old dog's eyes as he knows that there's nothing more he can do for this little pup he barely get to know.

Zenki answers the dog by trying to comfort him, but Lucky just falls over all of the sudden.

Then he stays still. Chibi Zenki's face is now covered in a deep blackness as he silently mourns the dog and being faced with the harsh truth. Chiaki starts crying as well.

Chibi Zenki can't take it anymore, he cries out in agony over Lucky's death, vowing to avenge the old dog.

The aftermath
The bug beastman just laughs in utter amusement, but Zenki is really furious. His wrath breaks his seals, turning him into his Great Demon God form.

He swiftly destroys the foe at ease and eats its seed, while Chiaki tries to calm down the little boy, who also lost his pet.

Zenki has returned to his Chibi form and now just stands there, staring into the distance, as he silently continues to mourn Lucky's death.

Lucky's death just fuels Zenki's wrath against the evils of this world even further. They have taken another innocent live and he was one of the few beings that accepted Zenki the way he is, too.

Zenki encourages Chiaki to go on. She can't just give up, because the bracelet is broken.

Chibi Zenki looks up to the stars, vowing keep fighting all evils no matter how strong they are.

Anime/Ingame
Not only does Lucky kinda replace Lulupapa from the anime, he is also a manga exclusive character and only appears in a single chapter (the aforementioned third chapter from Volume 9).

Though in a stark constrast to Lulupapa, Lucky likes Chibi Zenki and only playfully teases him to show his affection. This affection is returned when Zenki avenges Lucky's death after the latter has sacrificed himself to protect Zenki from harm.

This means Lucky neither appears in the anime nor in the games and similar to Master Daisoujou dies in the same Volume that introduced him.

Trivia

 * Lucky's way of protecting Chibi Zenki from being harmed, deeply caring about him and adopting him as his pup, even willing to sacrifice his own life to protect the little Chibi, makes him similar to Akira/Goki, who protects Chiaki from being harmed, deeply cares about her, assists her when she makes mistakes and is willing to sacrifice his life to protect her. (although the latter is more exclusive to Akira's/Goki's manga appearance)
 * Even if he only appears in a single chapter, Lucky might be the closest someone (besides Ozunu) ever got to being a fatherly figure towards Zenki. Which only makes it more heartbreaking when Lucky dies, as Zenki's facial expression makes it very clear how the little Kishin is completely overthrown by his emotions and sheer horror after losing his "father".


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